In green, the volcanic arch of the Lesser Antilles. The volcanic arch of the Lesser Antilles (also called the Caribbean bow of fire, bow of fire of the Lesser Antilles or volcanic arc of the Caribbean) is a long series of active volcanoes and volcanic islands, which extends in arch from north to south from the east of Puerto Rico to the coast of Venezuela. It is one of the two arches of fire of Central America, being the rest the one of Central American Volcanic Arc.
In the volcanic arch of the Lesser Antilles, there are currently some 70 active volcanoes, some of them underwater. Training
This volcanic arch marks the eastern limit of the Caribbean Sea and consequently the western boundary of the Atlantic Ocean. It originates in the contact zone on the Atlantic Plate and the Caribbean Plate. In it, the first slides below the second by the tectonic phenomenon known as subduction. The Caribbean Plate, in turn, is pushed towards the Atlantic by the pressure exerted by the Cocos Plate, responsible for the formation of the Central American continental volcanoes in the remaining arc of fire. Composition
The volcanic arch of the Lesser Antilles includes five large active volcanoes that have produced catastrophic eruptions in the past and are responsible for numerous earthquakes in the region.
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